On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Justin Funke wrote:

> I am working on modifying a standard redhat rpm to be compatible with
> e-smith (first crack at it) and have run into some problems rebuilding the
> spec file.

Welcome to the arcane world of RPM. We find RPM to be a very useful
concept, but the implementation suffers from many flaws.

Why do you need to modify the RPM at all? What stops you from creating an
e-smith-snort RPM to add e-smith compatible configuration?

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